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Joseph Patrick Kearney
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Joseph Patrick Kearney was
born at Saint Michael’s hospital in
Toronto, on March 2nd
1935, and was raised on Metcalfe Street and then Amelia Street. Kearney
attended school at Saint Martins on Winchester Street, then at De La
Salle on Bond Street. The Navy
had always beckoned Joseph so he joined at age 17 in 1952. He served on
several ships in both Halifax, Nova Scotia and Esquimalt, British
Columbia. Kearney retired from the Navy in 1977 with the rank of Chief
Petty Officer. He has four
children.
His two
daughters reside in Toronto,
with his
sons in Ottawa and Victoria. Kearney started writing in the late
1980’s, and has had twenty plus short stories published. He wrote a
column in a Navy newspaper in the early 1960’s while stationed at HMCS
Cornwallis in the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia. He will be releasing
a contemporary fictional novel in the late fall of 2009, titled: Cedars
of the Necropolis.
In 2010 Kearney will be writing a saga of an Irish family immigrating to
Canada in the era of the great potato famine in Ireland.
Joseph Kearney resides in the Belleville, Quinte West area of
Ontario
Joseph Kearney served on the following ships: HMCS Micmac, HMCS
Restigouche, HMCS Yukon, HMCS Bonaventure, HMCS Protecteur, HMCS
Chaudiere, HMCS Saskatchewan. |
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